Guild Wars 2

First: This bug has been around for at least 1 year. I can’t believe there is not report of this yet, but as forum search is still broken and google did not get any results here is probably yet another report of the issue:

There is this bug where sometimes every map ping (shift-leftclick) on the minimap stays active for the complete match. Each ping then repeat periodically, like every second. This kills any overview you have in soloQ.

This issue happened to me few days ago.
It happened with other players’ pings on my team.
He solved it by minimizing his mini-map and it stopped for everyone, so it seems to be a bug on players’ own pings (didn’t happen to me yet anyway).

I hope this info is useful to track this bug down

Branden Gee.2150:

Does this happen with your pings?
Does this happen with other players’ pings?

Any ping performed on my team stays active, both mine and those of the other players.

How often does this occur for you?

Irregular. Sometimes twice an evening, sometimes it does not occur in like 2 weeks.

Is there anything ‘special’ you do to have this occur?

Unfortunately no, I could not name any circumstances that start the behavior.
From what I’ve observed it may start mid-match. Some pings go fine until a certain point. From this point, every new ping stays until the match is over. Can’t say how it behaves on mapchange as I mostly do soloQ.

Additional info: When the situation occurs it seems to be for every player on the team, as there are usually other players complaining like “stop pinging”. So it seems to be an issue for the whole team.

Yeah, I’ve had this happen to me multiple times throughout the past year. It doesn’t happen too often for me but when it does it affects the whole team – they all see it. It affected all team members pings in my experience. Whenever someone pings it just stays there repeating over and over, you can actually blot out the entire map with an angry red mass of pings (someone inevitably does). And then all of a sudden it disappears as soon as it started. Perhaps another member had minimized their minimap, as was suggested here. I’ll try that in future.